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2) Macbeth
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English
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
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English
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This volume is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They claim he's an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognize him when they do see him. To occupy the time they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide -- anything "to hold the terrible silence at bay". Throughout...
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
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English
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The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker)
WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The fortieth anniversary...
WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The fortieth anniversary...
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Español
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"Los Capuleto y los Montesco son dos de las familias mas importantes de Verona. Tambien de las mas antiguas: casi tanto como la enemistad que las enfrenta. Pero ni el odio que se profesan ni la violencia que tine de sangre sus manos impediran que sus herederos sucumban a una fuerza mucho mas poderosa que el odio: la del primer amor. Una pasion por la que Romeo y Julieta se rebelaran hasta las ultimas consecuencias, y que pervivira mas alla de sus...
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Virgin River volume 3
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English
Description
Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series...
Virgin River became a safe haven for Sacramento prosecutor Brie Sheridan after she nearly lost her life at the hands of a violent criminal. Though tough and courageous, she has some fears she can't escape.
LAPD officer Mike Valenzuela was badly wounded in the line of duty. When he agrees to become Virgin River's first cop, he does so knowing...
Virgin River became a safe haven for Sacramento prosecutor Brie Sheridan after she nearly lost her life at the hands of a violent criminal. Though tough and courageous, she has some fears she can't escape.
LAPD officer Mike Valenzuela was badly wounded in the line of duty. When he agrees to become Virgin River's first cop, he does so knowing...
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English
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After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and soon the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.
11) Crossroads
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Series
Key to all mythologies volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless -- unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social...
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Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Escaping custody, Grindelwald begins gathering followers to forward his plan for pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings, and in an effort to thwart his efforts, Albus Dumbledore enlists the help of his former Hogwarts student Newt.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 1
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English
Description
The wife of a landscape designer in Pennsylvania obtains a job doing housework for an old woman who quilts, and in the process learns to quilt herself. As the two quilt, the old one recounts her family's tragic story.
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English
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*Finalist for the 2021 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction*
From the author of Girls on Fire comes a "sharp and soulful and ferociously insightful" (Leslie Jamison) novel centered around a woman with no memory, the scientists studying her, and the daughter who longs to understand.
Wendy Doe is a woman with no past and no future. Without any memory of who she is, she's diagnosed with dissociative fugue, a temporary...
From the author of Girls on Fire comes a "sharp and soulful and ferociously insightful" (Leslie Jamison) novel centered around a woman with no memory, the scientists studying her, and the daughter who longs to understand.
Wendy Doe is a woman with no past and no future. Without any memory of who she is, she's diagnosed with dissociative fugue, a temporary...
15) Home front
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English
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"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens,...
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English
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Set in Seattle, San Francisco, Montana, and Alaska, Mountain Time is the Story of three intense relationships: between father and son, between sisters, and between lovers. Mitch Rozier who has spent half of his fifty years writing an environmental column for an alternative west coast paper, now finds himself back under his father's roof; the sisters Lexa and Mariah McCaskill wrestle with the past that has driven them away from domesticity: Lexa
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Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"J. K. Rowling te invita a descubrir una nueva era del mundo de los magos... El explorador y magizoologo Newt Scamander llega a Nueva York con la intencion de permanecer unos pocos dias. Pero cuando pierde su maleta y algunos de sus animales fantasticos se escapan de ella, una serie de acontecimientos extraordinarios se desatan, poniendo en vilo a la gran ciudad."--Casadellibro.
18) Ruined
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English
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Mama Nadi, the owner of a brothel set in Congo, is a mother figure who keeps watch over her business, serving men from both sides of the conflict, and employing women, "ruined" by rape or torture, who are forced to work as prostitutes.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 5
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English
Description
Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
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